Joliet IL, P.F. Volland, 3rd pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover In an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. Green cloth with colorful pasted down illustration on front cover. Illustrated in color and b&w by Beatrice Stevens. Last 20 pages have light tanning along bottom edge. Set in 1685 France, the story tells of a young boy Philip and the conflict between King Louis XIV and the Huguenots. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Thin 4to, white linen, with circular pictorial label. Dj price-clipped and 10/70 on dust wrapper flap, 7 titles on the back flap. and the silver Caldecott Honor Book sticker on the front. Probable second printing as the first didn't have the sticker which was awarded in 1971.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , reprint , 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Translated by Elisabeth P. Stock. Color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Cover shows age and some wear. Hardbound, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Black & white illustrations by Salvatore Murdocca. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears. Tight copy. Sticker on rear jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Reynold Ruffins. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Nice color illustrations by Lobel. Minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Pen and ink illustrations in 2-colors by Brown. Bright dust jacket, unclipped. The world's most famous trapeze duo stuns their audience with a never-before-seen act.
Hardcover. NY , Doubleday, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial cloth in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Spier's illustrations accompany the words to our national anthem. Endpapers design shows evolution and various designs of American flag. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st thus, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 117 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black and white drawings by J.M. Conde. A Hollow Tree Story. Cover label illustration in color by Conde. ( balloon is also misspelled with one L) previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Color Illustrations by Richard Floethe. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket with light soil, closed tear at top back edge.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1958, Hardcover, illustrated cloth covers, no dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by WarrenChappell. Rubbing to corners and spine. Light soiling to covers.
Hardcover. New York , Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SMALL SKETCH on front fly leaf. In very good condition.
Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, Claster Enterprises, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 43 pages. Cardboard covers. No dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Gordon E. Nichols. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Soiling, rubbing to covers. Cracking at spine. Edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Little Bear, whose family performs in the Papagini Circus, longs to take part, and one night, through a series of accidents, he becomes featured in a way he never imagined. Clean, bright copy.
NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Velma Ilsley, 93 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket and light soil. Small tear to back pastedown. Story about Christmas giving and the true meaning of Christmas. Mr. Frisco isn't on his corner selling newspapers. So Charlie buys him a pair of gloves for a Christmas present and goes looking. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint , 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Contains black & white and red illustrations by Seuss. Some edgewear. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, creasing, small tears.
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Lillian Hoban. A young girl describes her adventures with her unusual friend, Lily Boop, who keeps a pet slug and eats raw eggs for lunch. Clean copy.
NY, Warne, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Author in color. A young girl dreams of the fun she could have if there were two of her. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus Co, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 62 pages. Color illustrations by Ver Beck. Color illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's signature on endpapers and front fly leaf. Wear to corners, spine.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 43 pages. Black & white pictures by Whitney Darrow, Jr. An "I Am Reading" book. Library binding. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Marc Simont. Light rubbing to dust jacket and some sticker residue on front.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages, Illustrated in color by Jenni Oliver. Very good condition with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket placed in protective plastic cover.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Friso Henstra; a Russian folktale about a cow who's magical milk brings back youth to her owners; very good in a very good dust jacket.
hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jim McMullan. Light wear to dust jacket. Flyer for 1988 McMullan Exibition at the Margo Feidan Gallery laid in.
Hardcover. New York, J.H. Sears & Co. Inc., 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Cloth boards with color paste-down illustration of Nip and Tuck on cover. Illustrated with black & white drawings and six full page color illustrations by Leila C. Freeman. Faint rubbing on front cover along spine approx. 1". Minor wear to spine top and bottom and corners. Printed bookplate has light crayon printing over letters. A beautiful book.
Springfield, MA, Mcloughlin Bros., 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format 10x12", pictorial boards with a black cloth spine. The cloth has separated from the spine and the first signature is holding on by a thread or two, Except for this loose binding defect, the pages are clean and bright. No markings. A scarce title.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, b&w illustrations by Gail Owens. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. John and his family prepare for and experience a hurricane on the East Coast.
Hardcover. NY, Joanna Cotler /HarperCollins, 5th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Summary of the story: "A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world". Clean copy.
NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Marcia Sewall. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Tape and tape residue on covers. Dust jacket with edgewear, small tears and spine sun fade.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in green cloth with full color paste-down on front cover. 10" x 12", former owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise unmarked. Vivid color illustrations throughout along with b&w drawings by Eulalie, Lois Lenski and others.. Contains nine traditional stories: Little Red Riding Hood, The Story of Peter Pan, Dick Whittington and His Cat, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Three Bears, Puss in Boots, Tom Thumb and Jack and the Beanstalk.
NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light edgewear and soil to the dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Gail Owens. A Parisian mongrel successfully leads a double life until both of his "owners" enter him in the same dog show. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 47 pages. Three-color illustrations by Paul Galdone. Dust jacket price clipped. Creases, rubbing, edgewear to dust jacket.
NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Four traditional Irish tales are woven throughout this touching story of Donal O'Donnell, who has kept his heart closely guarded since the death of his son, as he is unexpectedly captivated by the stories of three peddlers, which are filled with hope, healing, and magic. Color illustrations by Loren Long.
NY, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Berthold. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Illustrated end papers. Edgewear and chipping to covers. Tears at the bottom and top of spine.
Hardcover. Mankato, MN, Creative Editions, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gary Kelley. Like new, clean and tight.
New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., 32 pages, illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully, very clean, tight copy, like new. From skiing in January, to surfing in July, to giving in December, two energetic piglets romp through the months of the year in this delightful calendar in verse.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Color illustrations by Wendy Watson. SIGNED BY BOTH CLYDE AND WENDY WATSON on title-page. Dust jacket with rubbing, price-clipped. Minor wear on dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 49 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jean Claverie. Corners rubbed.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Kessler. An I Can Read Book all about swimming. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light green boards, maroon cloth spine with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, beautiful full page color illustrations by Jim McMullan. Very slight wear to dust jacket; a beautiful children's book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Wonder Books, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Jane Flory. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dominic Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards. When a jazz-loving kitten named Nicky meets a legendary trumpet player, he learns how to play jazz and word travels fast--soon all the top musicians hear about this jazz cat and want to play with him. This charming story is illustrated with photographs of Nicky with jazz greats Roy Eldridge, Lionel Hampton, Lena Horne, Quincy Jones, Abbey Lincoln, and Gerry Mulligan as they meet and make friends. The colorful graphics and rhyming text--call and response conversation between Nicky and his new musician friends--reflect the humor, rhythm, and spirit of jazz itself. Nicky the Jazz Cat teaches children about the magic of jazz, the value of friends and mentors, and the power of imagination and originality. Children and adults alike will delight in his journey from curious jazz kitten to acclaimed jazz cat. This is the true first edition published 2 years before the poerHouse edition.